Top 10 Films: 1993-2007
Here is my current top 10 List. It goes from 1993-2007, with additional lists in 1971 and 1989. I am constantly updating these lists as I see more films. I've also started a project that will eventually give me a top 10 list from 1927-2007 (or whatever year it is when I finish). You can follow my progress here
2009
Inglourious Basterds (Quentin Tarantino)
Up in the Air (Jason Reitman)
Up (Pete Docter)
500 Days of Summer (Marc Webb)
Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire (Lee Daniels)
Sugar (Anna Boden, Ryan Fleck)
Away We Go (Sam Mendes)
Moon (Duncan Jones)
In the Loop (Armando Iannucci)
Observe and Report (Jody Hill)
2008
The Dark Knight (Christopher Nolan)
Wall-E (Andrew Stanton)
Let the Right One In (Tomas Alfredson)
Synecdoche, New York (Charlie Kaufman)
Wendy and Lucy (Kelly Reichardt)
Forgetting Sarah Marshall (Nicholas Stoller)
Rachel Getting Married (Jonathan Demme)
The Wrestler (Darren Aronofsky)
The Visitor (Thomas McCarthy)
The Edge of Heaven (Fatih Akin)
2007
No Country For Old Men (Joel and Ethan Coen)
Great World of Sound (Craig Zobel)
Ratatouille (Brad Bird)
Charlie Wilson's War (Mike Nichols)
Michael Clayton (Tony Gilroy)
Juno (Jason Reitman)
Waitress (Adrienne Shelly)
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Tim Burton)
Knocked Up (Judd Apatow)
Lars and the Real Girl (Craig Gillespie)
2006
Pan's Labyrinth (Guillermo Del Toro)
Little Miss Sunshine (Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris)
Friends With Money (Nicole Holofcener)
The Heart of the Game (Ward Serrill)
The Departed (Martin Scorsese)
Dreamgirls (Bill Condon)
Sherrybaby (Laurie Collyer)
Letters From Iwo Jima (Clint Eastwood)
Stranger Than Fiction (Marc Forster)
United 93 (Paul Greengreass)
2005
Brokeback Mountain (Ang Lee)
Me and You and Everyone We Know (Miranda July)
Munich (Steven Spielberg)
Syriana (Stephen Gagan)
King Kong (Peter Jackson)
A History of Violence (David Cronenberg)
Serenity (Joss Whedon)
The 40 Year Old Virgin (Judd Apatow)
The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill (Judy Irving)
Pride and Prejudice (Joe Wright)
2004
Million Dollar Baby (Clint Eastwood)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry)
Garden State (Zach Braff)
The Terminal (Steven Spielberg)
Sideways (Alexander Payne)
The Incredibles (Brad Bird)
Hotel Rwanda (Terry George)
Hero (Zhang Yimou)
Collateral (Michael Mann)
Finding Neverland (Marc Forster)
2003
Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (Peter Jackson)
Lost in Translation (Sofia Coppola)
Kill Bill Vol. 1 (Quentin Tarantino)
21 Grams (Alejandro González Iñárritu)
The Magdalene Sisters (Peter Mullan)
Spellbound (Jeffrey Blitz)
Mystic River (Clint Eastwood)
Finding Nemo (Andrew Stanton)
The Triplets of Belleville (Sylvain Chomet)
The Cooler (Wayne Kramer)
2002
25th Hour (Spike Lee)
Kissing Jessica Stein (Charles Herman-Wurmfeld)
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (Peter Jackson)
Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki)
Bowling for Columbine (Michael Moore)
Minority Report (Steven Spielberg)
Moonlight Mile (Brad Silberling)
Lovely & Amazing (Nicole Holofcener)
Road to Perdition (Sam Mendes)
Far from Heaven (Todd Haynes)
2001
AI: Artificial Intelligence (Steven Spielberg)
Monster's Ball (Marc Forster)
Ghost World (Terry Zwigoff)
Memento (Christopher Nolan)
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (Peter Jackson)
The Man Who Wasn't There (Joel Coen)
Joy Ride (John Dahl)
Lost and Delirious (Léa Pool)
Mulholland Dr. (David Lynch)
Bandits (Barry Levinson)
2000
Almost Famous (Cameron Crowe)
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Ang Lee)
Cast Away (Robert Zemeckis)
Nurse Betty (Neil LaBute)
Traffic (Steven Soderbergh)
Requiem for a Dream (Darren Aronofsky)
Erin Brockovich (Steven Soderbergh)
You Can Count on Me (Kenneth Lonergan)
Getting to Know You (Lisanne Skyler)
George Washington (David Gordon Green)
1999
Magnolia (Paul Thomas Anderson)
Boys Don't Cry (Kimberly Peirce)
Show Me Love (Lukas Moodysson)
Election (Alexander Payne)
American Beauty (Sam Mendes)
Being John Malkovich (Spike Jonze)
Toy Story 2 (John Lasseter)
The Sixth Sense (M. Night Shyamalan)
Princess Mononoke (Hayao Miyazaki)
Go (Doug Liman)
1998
Saving Private Ryan (Steven Spielberg)
Love and Death on Long Island (Richard Kwietniowski)
Pleasantville (Gary Ross)
The Truman Show (Peter Weir)
A Simple Plan (Sam Raimi)
Out of Sight (Steven Soderbergh)
The Iron Giant (Brad Bird)
Happiness (Todd Solondz)
Bulworth (Warren Beatty)
Dark City (Alex Proyas)
1997
The Sweet Hereafter (Atom Egoyan)
Titanic (James Cameron)
The Ice Storm (Ang Lee)
In the Company of Men (Neil LaBute)
Contact (Robert Zemeckis)
Boogie Nights (Paul Thomas Anderson)
Ulee's Gold (Victor Nunez)
Good Will Hunting (Gus Van Sant)
Scream 2 (Wes Craven)
My Best Friend's Wedding (PJ Hogan)
1996
Jerry Maguire (Cameron Crowe)
Breaking the Waves (Lars Von Trier)
Bound (Wachowski Bros.)
Trees Lounge (Steve Buscemi)
Welcome to the Dollhouse (Todd SOlondz)
Courage Under Fire (Edward Zwick)
The Last Supper (Stacy Title)
Beautiful Girls (Ted Demme)
The Frighteners (Peter Jackson)
Scream (Wes Craven)
1995
Wild Reeds (Andre Techine)
Exotica (Atom Egoyan)
Kicking and Screaming (Noah Baumbach)
Dead Man Walking (Tim Robbins)
Leaving Las Vegas (Mike Figgis)
Toy Story (John Lasseter)
The American President (Rob Reiner)
Fluke (Carlo Carlei)
Se7en (David Fincher)
Before Sunrise (Richard Linklater)
1994
Heavenly Creatures (Peter Jackson)
Hoop Dreams (Steve James)
The Shawshank Redemption (Frank Darabont)
Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino)
Forrest Gump (Robert Zemeckis)
The Last Seduction (John Dahl)
Speed (Jan De Bont)
Ed Wood (Tim Burton)
Little Women (Gilliam Armstrong)
Natural Born Killers (Oliver Stone)
1993
Schindler's List (Steven Spielberg)
King of the Hill (Steven Soderbergh)
Ruby in Paradise (Victor Nunez)
Searching For Bobby Fischer (Steven Zaillian)
The Age of Innocence (Martin Scorcese)
Remains of the Day (James Ivory)
Short Cuts (Robert Altman)
Hard-boiled (John Woo)
The Piano (Jane Campion)
Rudy (David Anspaugh)
1992
Malcolm X (Spike Lee)
The Player (Robert Altman)
Unforgiven (Clint Eastwood)
Flirting (John Duigan)
A Few Good Men (Rob Reiner)
Of Mice and Men (Gary Sinise)
The Crying Game (Neil Jordan)
Husbands and Wives (Woody Allen)
My Cousin Vinny (Jonathan Lynn
White Men Can't Jump (Ron Shelton)
1989
Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee)
Say Anything (Cameron Crowe)
Roger & Me (Michael Moore)
Heathers (Michael Lehmann)
Glory (Edward Zwick)
Born on the 4th of July (Oliver Stone)
Casualties of War (Brian De Palma)
My Left Foot (Jim Sheridan)
Crimes and Misdemeanors (Woody Allen)
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (Steven Spielberg)
Haven't Seen Yet: Valmont (Milos Forman), Enemies: A Love Story (Paul Mazursky)
1971
Walkabout (Nicolas Roeg)
A Clockwork Orange (Stanley Kubrick)
The Last Picture Show (Peter Bogdanovich)
Harold and Maude (Hal Ashby)
McCabe and Mrs. Miller (Robert Altman)
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (Mel Stuart)
Bananas (Woody Allen)
Summer of 42 (Robert Mulligan)
Klute (Alan J. Pakula)
Dirty Harry (Don Siegel)
Haven't Seen Yet: Fiddler on the Roof (Norman Jewison), The Omega Man (Boris Sagal), Get Carter (Mike Hodges), Play Misty For Me (Clint Eastwood), Vanishing Point (Richard Sarafian), Two-Lane Blacktop (Monte Hellman)
1931
M (Fritz Lang)
City Lights (Charles Chaplin)
Miracle Woman (Frank Capra)
The Smiling Lieutenant (Ernst Lubitsch)
An American Tragedy (Josef Von Sternberg)
Dishonored (Josef von Sternberg)
Platinum Blonde (Frank Capra)
The Public Enemy (William Wellman)
Little Caesar (Mervyn LeRoy)
Tokyo Chorus (Yasujiro Ozu)
1930
All Quiet on the Western Front (Lewis Milestone)
City Girl (FW Murnau)
A Cottage on Dartmoor (Anthony Asquith)
Morocco (Josef von Sternberg)
Hell's Angels (Howard Hughes)
Billy the Kid (King Vidor)
The Blue Angel (Josef Von Sternberg)
Feet First (Clyde Bruckman)
The White Hell of Pitz Palu (Arnold Fanck, GW Pabst)
Song O My Heart (Frank Borzage)
1929
The Iron Mask (Allan Dwan)
Spies (Fritz Lang)
Napoleon (Abel Gance)
Pandora's Box (GW Pabst)
Asphalt (Joe May)
Diary of a Lost Girl (GW Pabst)
The Love Parade (Ernst Lubitsch)
Alibi (Roland West)
Lucky Star (Frank Borzage)
Queen Kelly (Erich Von Stroheim)
1928
The Circus (Charles Chaplin)
The Crowd (King Vidor)
Speedy (Ted Wilde)
The Passion of Joan of Arc (Carl Dreyer)
Laugh, Clown, Laugh (Herbert Brenon)
Steamboat Bill Jr. (Charles Reisner)
The Last Command (Josef Von Sternberg)
A Girl in Every Port (Howard Hawks)
Berlin: Symphony of a Great City (Walter Ruttman)
The Lodger (Alfred Hitchcock)
1927
Sunrise (FW Murnau)
Metropolis (Fritz Lang)
Underworld (Josef von Sternberg)
The Unknown (Tod Browning)
The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg (Ernst Lubitsch)
The Kid Brother (Ted Wilde and JA Howe)
The General (Clyde Bruckman, Buster Keaton)
The Cat and the Canary (Paul Leni)
Seventh Heaven (Frank Borzage)
Bed and Sofa (Abram Room)
